Kirsten Gillibrand

The capture of David Sweat and the shooting of his fellow escapee Richard Matt makes me think about the tremendous value of a good correction officer. They are the public servants with whom the public rarely interacts. They are mostly invisible to the public, yet they keep us safe every day in ways we can’t […]
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Our opinion: Congress’ failure to press for a strong military policy and process on sexual assault is a disservice to women. With 1.4 million people, the New York City borough of the Bronx has about as many people as the U.S. military has in uniform. If trends continue, the borough will have about 800 complaints […]
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New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “is good at having it both ways; this upstate native who once bragged about keeping shotguns under her bed also raises more money from the financial sector than any of her Senate colleagues,” says Ben Terris in the National Journal. Her ability “to build a national persona that can […]
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Our opinion: An outbreak of consensus among liberals and conservatives in the Senate is an encouraging sign. They should keep at it. Sexual abuse in the military and government spying on American citizens would seem to be disparate issues. Yet they may be two examples of an evolving thaw in this nation’s terribly polarized politics. […]
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Our endorsement: Capital Region residents had every reason to be encouraged when Gov. David Paterson appointed Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat in 2009. A politically accomplished woman from upstate was about to represent all of New York. Almost four years later, voters across the state have seen what an effective […]
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Here’s a novel project: Scan the speeches of politicians in the Congressional Record, crunch it through some software, and come up with a list of the words they use the most. That’s essentially what the Sunlight Foundation did, and the result is Capital Words, a searchable database of Congressional words, wisdom and otherwise since 1996. […]
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